problem in setMnemonic for JMenu in JApplet

[doron70]

Hi,

I'm using this chunk of code below.
setMnemonic works fine for JMenuItem but not for JMenu
(although it does show the underline under the letter G
it gives nothing when I press ALT G)

I'm using Java 1.5_0_16

Thanks


// Game menu
gameMenu = new JMenu( "Game");
gameMenu.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_G);
// New Item
newItem = new JMenuItem( "New");
newItem.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_N);

gameMenu.add( newItem);

[camickr]

Works fine for me.

See How to Use Menus (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Using Swing Components)

[doron70]

I do exactly what it is written.. see code below.
I get the same problem with JMenu.
Maybe it's because I use JApplet and not JFrame?



import javax.swing.JApplet;

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

import java.applet.*;

public class menuFrame extends JApplet
{
public menuFrame()
{
JMenuBar menuBar;
JMenu menu;
JMenuItem menuItem;

//Create the menu bar.
menuBar = new JMenuBar();

//Build the first menu.
menu = new JMenu("A Menu");
menu.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_A);
menu.getAccessibleContext().setAccessibleDescripti on(
"The only menu in this program that has menu items");
menuBar.add(menu);

//a group of JMenuItems
menuItem = new JMenuItem("A text-only menu item",
KeyEvent.VK_T);
menuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(
KeyEvent.VK_1, ActionEvent.ALT_MASK));
menuItem.getAccessibleContext().setAccessibleDescr iption(
"This doesn't really do anything");
menu.add(menuItem);

setJMenuBar(menuBar);

}

}